What. The. Fuck.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump...eird-fight-with-vietnam-vets?via=twitter_page
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump...eird-fight-with-vietnam-vets?via=twitter_page
During this White House meeting, certain details of which have not been previously reported, the president managed to again annoy and confuse U.S. war veterans, this time by getting into a bizarre, protracted argument with Vietnam War vets present about the movie Apocalypse Now and the herbicide Agent Orange.
"It was really fucking weird," one attendee bluntly assessed to The Daily Beast.
Source present at the time tell The Daily Beast that multiple people—including Vietnam War veterans—chimed in to inform the president that the Apocalypse Now set piece he was talking about showcased the U.S. military using napalm, not Agent Orange.
Trump refused to accept that he was mistaken and proceeded to say things like, "no, I think it's that stuff from that movie."
He then went around the room polling attendees about if it was, in fact, napalm or Agent Orange in the famous scene from "that movie," as the gathering—organized to focus on important, sometimes life-or-death issues for veterans—descended into a pointless debate over Apocalypse Now that the president simply would not concede, despite all the available evidence.
Finally, Trump made eye contact again with Weidman and asked him if it was napalm or Agent Orange. The VVA co-founder assured Trump, as did several before him, that it was in fact napalm, and said that he didn't like the Coppola film and believed it to be a disservice to Vietnam War veterans.
According to two people in attendance, Trump then flippantly replied to the Vietnam vet, "Well, I think you just didn't like the movie," before finally moving on.